mariage de convenance

/ marjaʒ də kɔ̃vənɑ̃s /

noun

Nevertheless, since she married—as girls in France do—not to please herself, but her parents, she made a mariage de convenance.

Of course I shall have to marry one day or other, but I'm afraid it will be what the French call a mariage de convenance.

This mariage de convenance brought no happiness to the parties concerned, and ended in completely crushing the unloved wife.

It was a mariage de convenance—there'd been no wooing, no winning.

There had been no suggestion in their many tte--ttes that they were about to embark upon a mariage de convenance.

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